I'd never seen Firefly before. Damn you Fox for making me care about these characters, that was the best two hours of television I'd seen in a very long time. Everything clicked, and everything felt right.

I wonder if it had been different in the States, had Serenity been aired there first.

It was a tremendous pilot -- although slightly spoilt by the opening credits revealing the final composition of the Serenity crew. Of course, after "Seeing Red" I did wonder whether certain characters' appearance in the title sequence could be red herrings...

I know nothing of the ongoing plot, and so will be enjoying the series on an episode-by-episode basis. On the face of it, a real shame that it'll be over in just a few short months :-(